It's not fulfilling to do my 10+hour grind anymore. Just what is the end goal? To buy hyper-inflated moonstones because pebbles are still nearly worthless? No, thank you...My time is better spent elsewhere in a game where that grind pays off and won't give me swamp-colored wolves as my only profit.
I think the end goal right now is to make your own fun, as it normally is with any sort of pet site. Not necessarily to grind for 10 hours. (Which might also contribute to your burnout)
The game is very new, it takes time for there to be a good balance of goals and play style to pop up especially because they're so different then traditional games.
I've been playing FR for years now, nothing really motivates me to play it. I just do for fun.
If you're not having fun, it's okay to take a break. But remember you're not playing to go to work.
I’m kind of stuck in the middle here. On one hand I’m willing to give this site a chance and wait for it to get better. Good things take time to develop and Rome wasn’t build in one day and all that…
But on the other hand I’m also very sympathetic to the frustrations outlined here. I think a lot of that could have been avoided. Players have been giving feedback since alpha and beta. And coming back to full launch to just see the same issues with minimal improvements? Yeah, that’s discouraging for returners.
Couple that with newbies being confused by the site’s layout and unclear tutorials, as well as relatively little to do right now, I can guess why player numbers drop, forums are inactive and the player economy takes a plunge right along.
Is the comparison of FR and LW uneven? Of course! But people are not doing a 1:1 for both sites as they are right now and rather are trying to point out that FR had maaanyyy hiccups before they got to where they are right now. And it’s always a good idea to try and learn from your predecessors.
The delay in August is also not in itself an issue. We all would rather see the dev team take their time with major updates to the game and give it the necessary polish without burning themselves out. And I don’t think focusing on work and not putting out a ton of updates is in itself a bad thing. But don’t leave your players hanging for too long. There are other pet sites and all of them are competing for the same resource (a limited pool of niche players).
Overall while I too am a little frustrated and worried about the site since launch I still hold out hope that we’ll see this come around in the future. Only time will tell.
I would like to see the site thrive, but at this point I've lost hope. Things are just so slow and I feel like communication is lacking pretty heavily... it feels like DV again (but not quite as bad).
Today to come on and find out that I can't even make forum posts on Firefox? That's kinda it for me...
That sounds like a bug - I’m also a Firefox user and I’m writing this post on Firefox in my phone. I use Firefox to access the site on my laptop too
The idea they are "new" (relatively speaking at this point lol) and not early is such a succinct way to phrase that failure to take advantage of what knowledge was already there and improve on it with the help of all the lovely people and their feedback. Lorwolf was in the perfect place to learn from the pitfalls and successes of modern pet games & was blessed with a wealth of great feedback from players that understood how to balance a game like this, and squandered that potential early on by refusing to learn from the wealth of info available. :P
If the dev team can let go of the vision that's sinking the place, I do think there's room for recovery! But they gotta act like they want it, start actually communicating and start taking a lot of action sooner rather than later.
There has been a staff update posted today - the lead developer fractured his arm.
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